- Illinois’ most recent budget includes a $300,000 grant to Black Lives Matter Lake County, a group that critics say appears to be mainly inactive and is led by someone who has had alleged run-ins with police.
- This is not the first grant to go to BLM Lake County. The 2023 Illinois budget included $250,000 to BLM Lake County, and another $125,000. Funds for both came from the American Rescue Plan Act, a pandemic-era program that sent large sums of money to states and municipalities with broad discretion on how to use it.
- The head of the group, Clyde McLemore, has faced charges from law enforcement, according to press reports. In February 2021, McLemore was charged with a felony count of attempted battery of a police officer and misdemeanor disorderly conduct after allegedly kicking a door at the Kenosha Courthouse.
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Illinois Gave $300K To Dormant BLM Chapter Led By Convicted Criminal
FILE - A protester holds a sign calling for the defunding of police at a protest on July 25, 2020, in Oakland, Calif. Oakland officials will reverse plans to cut police funding and seek to hire more officers as soon as possible, Mayor Libby Schaaf said Monday, Nov. 29, 2021, as a spate of gun violence and fatal shootings has left residents on edge. (AP Photo/Christian Monterrosa, File)
